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  • The Complete Father Brown Mysteries
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    The Complete Father Brown Mysteries includes 24 stories featuring G. K. Chesterton’s eponymous Roman Catholic sleuth. These mysteries are the original source material for the current hit BBC TV show Father Brown starring Mark Williams. ...
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    50,66 €

  • Breve historia de Inglaterra
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Con sobrada razón se me podría preguntar que cómo me atrevo aun bajo el estímulo de un desafío a componer un ensayo sobre la historia inglesa, por muy popular que aspire a ser, yo, que no pretendo lucir con erudición de especialista; yo, que no soy más que un hombre del público. A esto respondo que sé al menos lo bastante para asegurar que todavía no ha escrito nadie una histor...
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    19,95 €

  • The Man Who Was Thursday
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English journalist, poet, biographer, historian, debater, radio personality, and novelist who wrote more than 100 books on a wide variety of subjects. He is best known for his beloved Father Brown series of detective stories and The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, his genre-defying masterpiece that centers on poet-turned-detective ...
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    11,92 €

  • Life in Old Cambridge Illustrations of English History
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    19,97 €

  • Life in Old Cambridge Illustrations of English History
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    32,45 €

  • St. Francis of Assisi
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Francis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, perhaps the greatest saint in the Christian calendar, and one of the most influential men in the whole of human history. By universal acclaim, this biography by G. K. Chesterton is considered the best appreciation of Francis's life--the one that gets to the heart of the matter.For Chesterton, Francis is a great paradoxical figur...
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    16,52 €

  • St. Francis of Assisi
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Francis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, perhaps the greatest saint in the Christian calendar, and one of the most influential men in the whole of human history. By universal acclaim, this biography by G. K. Chesterton is considered the best appreciation of Francis's life--the one that gets to the heart of the matter.For Chesterton, Francis is a great paradoxical figur...
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    26,93 €

  • Manalive
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
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    21,61 €

  • Manalive
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
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    13,53 €

  • What’s Wrong with the World
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
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    21,52 €

  • What’s Wrong with the World
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
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    13,42 €

  • Lo que está mal en el mundo
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    «Todo libro de investigación social moderna tiene una estructura de algún modo muy definida. Empieza por regla general con un análisis, con estadísticas, tablas de población, la disminución de la delincuencia entre los congregacionistas, el crecimiento de la histeria entre los policías y otros hechos igualmente comprobados; acaba con un capítulo que normalmente se llama La solu...
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    19,95 €

  • El hombre eterno
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Sobre esta obra dice su autor: «En este libro, en el que solo se pretende hacer una crítica popular de falacias populares que con frecuencia resultan ser falacias muy vulgares, creo que a veces he dado la impresión de burlarme de la seriedad del trabajo científico. Mi intención fue precisamente la contraria. No pretendo disentir con el científico que explica el elefante, sino c...
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    19,95 €

  • San Francisco De Asis
    GKChesterton GKChesterton
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work....
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    34,49 €

  • The Man Who Was Thursday
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    First published in 1908, G. K. Chesterton’s “The Man Who Was Thursday” has been described as a metaphysical thriller. It is the story of Gabriel Syme, who is recruited by Scotland Yard as part of an anti-anarchist task force. When he meets Lucian Gregory, a poet and member of a secret society of anarchists, he gains access to the underground movement. The group is lead by a cen...
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    9,98 €

  • All Things Considered (Hardcover)
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    This complete edition of All Things Considered by G.K. Chesterton sees the author show off his critical wit and poise with considerable aplomb.The topics herein range between discussions on human nature and behaviour, to the contemporary affairs which enveloped Edwardian Britain, and even to the practice of chasing one’s hat. Ponderings on a scientific theme, together with disc...
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    26,17 €

  • Manalive
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    A book by G. K. Chesterton detailing a popular theme both in his own philosophy, and in Christianity, of the 'holy fool', such as in Dostoevsky's The Idiot and Cervantes' Don Quixote. This is a book in two parts. The first, “The Enigma of Innocent Smith,” concerns the arrival of a new tenant at Beacon House, a London boarding establishment. Like Mary Poppins, th...
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    28,31 €

  • Manalive
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    A book by G. K. Chesterton detailing a popular theme both in his own philosophy, and in Christianity, of the 'holy fool', such as in Dostoevsky's The Idiot and Cervantes' Don Quixote. This is a book in two parts. The first, “The Enigma of Innocent Smith,” concerns the arrival of a new tenant at Beacon House, a London boarding establishment. Like Mary Poppins, th...
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    17,69 €

  • Orthodoxy
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    A classic of Christian apologetics, the branch of Christian theology which seeks to offer reasoned defenses for Christianity against its objectors, G. K. Chesterton’s “Orthodoxy” is one of the author’s most enduring works. A self-described pagan and agnostic in his youth, Chesterton describes in this work how he came to believe in the importance of his own personal belief in Ch...
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    9,98 €

  • Father Brown
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Father Brown ist ein Geistlicher, der mit psychologischem Einfühlungsvermögen und durch logische Schlüsse auch die scheinbar mysteriösesten Kriminalfälle löst. Im Gegensatz zu anderen bekannten Romanhelden wie Sherlock Holmes und Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot steht bei Brown nicht so sehr die äußere Logik des Tatherganges, sondern die innere Logik und Motivation des Täters im...
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    6,83 €

  • Der Mann, der Donnerstag war (Politthriller)
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    The Man Who Was Thursday von 1908 (Der Mann, der Donnerstag war) ist eine politische Satire, die der Phantastischen Literatur zugerechnet werden kann: Ein Komplott anarchistischer Terroristen am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts entwickelt sich darin, unter zunehmender Verfremdung der Wirklichkeit, in ein verrückt-göttliches Spektakel. Wie in anderen seiner Schriften wendet sich Ches...
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    5,42 €

  • The Everlasting Man Complete and Unabridged
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Here is the book that converted C. S. Lewis from atheism to Christianity. This history of mankind, Christ, and Christianity is to some extent a conscious rebuttal of H. G. Wells’ Outline of History, which embraced both the evolutionary origins of humanity and the mortal humanity of Jesus. Whereas Orthodoxy detailed Chesterton’s own spiritual journey, this book illustrates the s...
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    36,98 €

  • The Wisdom of Father Brown
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Father Brown’s powers of detection allow him to sit beside the immortal Holmes but he is also, to quote Rufus King, ’in all senses a most pleasantly fascinating human being.’ You will be enchanted by the scandalously innocent man of the cloth, with the umbrella, who exhibits such uncanny insight into ingeniously tricky human problems. ...
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    27,96 €

  • Orthodoxy
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    In Orthodoxy, Gilbert K. Chesterton explains how and why he came to believe in Christianity and more specifically the Catholic Church’s brand of orthodoxy. In the book, Chesterton takes the spiritually curious reader on an intellectual quest. While looking for the meaning of life, he finds truth that uniquely fulfills human needs. This is the truth revealed in Christianity. ...
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    36,92 €

  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood Park. He was a good-looking young man in tweeds, with very pale curly hair and pale clear eyes. Walking in wind and sun in the very landscape of liberty, he was still yo...
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    20,31 €

  • Five Types, a Book of Essays
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    15,17 €

  • The Complete Father Brown Mysteries
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    The Complete Father Brown Mysteries includes 24 stories featuring G. K. Chesterton’s eponymous Roman Catholic sleuth. These mysteries are the original source material for the current hit BBC TV show Father Brown starring Mark Williams. ...
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    20,04 €

  • The Complete Father Brown Mysteries
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    The Complete Father Brown Mysteries includes 24 stories featuring G. K. Chesterton’s eponymous Roman Catholic sleuth. These mysteries are the original source material for the current hit BBC TV show Father Brown starring Mark Williams. ...
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    38,81 €

  • Menschenskind - Ein Sonderling der anderen Art
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Aus dem Buch: 'Der Mann in dem gediegenen seidenen Zylinder war die Verkörperung seidiger Geschmeidigkeit und Gediegenheit. Er war ein großer, glatter, gelangweilt aussehender (und wie manche sagten, langweiliger) Mann mit glattem, blondem Haar und schönen, aber ausdruckslosen Gesichtszügen, ein junger, erfolgreicher Arzt namens Warner. Obgleich seine Glattheit und Blondheit zu...
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    5,36 €

  • Father Brown (Gesammelte Krimis)
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Father Brown ist ein Geistlicher, der mit psychologischem Einfühlungsvermögen und durch logische Schlüsse auch die scheinbar mysteriösesten Kriminalfälle löst. Im Gegensatz zu anderen bekannten Romanhelden wie Sherlock Holmes und Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot steht bei Brown nicht so sehr die äußere Logik des Tatherganges, sondern die innere Logik und Motivation des Täters im...
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    6,83 €